- Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and children became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. Its one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resiliance in the face of adversity. --- From Wikipedia
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One of the most famous images in the upcoming Pulitzer exhibition at the Haggin will be the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during World War II. Ironically, the photographer, Joe Rosenthal, had been rejected as a military photographer by the Army and Navy due to impaired eyesight. It was while serving as a combat photographer for the Associated Press that he was sent to the small P - SusanAlfred Eisenstaedt worked as a photographer for Life magazine from 1936 to 1972. He is most renowned for his candid photographs, most of which he made using a 35mm Leica M3 rangefinder camera. His most famous photograph is of an American sailor kissing a young woman on V-J Day in Times Square in 1945. (The young woman is widely accepted to have been Edith Shain, although some sources say she was G
- SusanGeneral Nguyen Ngoc Loan Executing a Viet Cong Prisoner in Saigon is a photograph taken by Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968 showing South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The event was also captured by NBC News film cameras, but the Adams' image remains the defining image.
The photo won Adams the 1969
- xwthe last one is vivid, touching...
but we have a lot of them from china, isn't it?
war and peace, peace and war. is the war fighting for peace,
or the peace preparing wars ?
freedom is not free! -- a famous U.S slogan.
- 椋庡瓙搁了今天，这大兵起码会被指控sexual assault，而这女孩则可拿到一笔美国海军军部提供的undisclosed amount of settlment而小发一笔，而这类照片当然会以恶意破坏军民关系被美国国防部加以指责，媒体会知趣的进行自我censorship…这照片所以珍贵是因为这一切在今天都不可能再重演了。
- 椋庡瓙史载这位南越将军最后在美国加州定居，问心无愧地尽享天年。而那越共的后代最多弄一烈属待遇，继续在越南受苦。“善有善报，恶有恶报”的信条在日趋复杂的社会里已经越来越没有意义了，因为善恶的标准，何以为“报”越来越不确定了。对大多数人，大概既不愿做那将军，也不愿做那越共，而只是愿象那记者一般，做个局外人，静观人生吧。
- chloeFor you feminists out there -
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- SusanRosa Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.[Image]
- SusanThis is pretty good chole! Post us some more...
- SusanSharbat Gula (born c. 1972) is an Afghan woman of Pashtun ethnicity. Her face became famous as a cover photograph on a 1985 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Gula was orphaned during the Soviet Union's bombing of Afghanistan. While at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984, her picture was taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Gula was one of the students in an
- Susan March 1993 Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan with intentions of documenting the local rebel movement. However, upon arriving and witnessing the horror of the famine crises Carter began to take photographs of starving victims. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while strug
- 鍥惧儚bias关于贫困的研究表明，过于“刺激”的贫困的图象，其社会效果是很复杂的。
一方面人们期望它们能唤起社会对这些“不幸者”的意识和同情，另一方面
又在很大程度上带来了“误解”，造成了“隔膜”。明显的负效果包括，强
化“我们”和“他们”的意识鸿沟，突出不幸者的个人“弱点”，导致“不
幸审美”疲劳，诱发潜在帮助者的“个人无助”感，仅仅导致一些偶然的，
特殊事件性的帮助行为，有时候甚至会给被宣传者的个人意愿和切
- QQ说得很好，图像越“典型”，越觉得离自己很远，贫穷、文化、宗教、地域等等之图像表现，都是如此。
- SusanTired already? You guys got really weak nerves! Ok, some classic posters coming up, so you won't have 不幸审美疲劳.
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- QQEnjoying it, keep posting. :)
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- QQI once had this poster on my wall. :)
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- SusanAre you that girl or that guy? :)
- QQI like all their expressions. vivid. :)
- Blue RiverEnjoyed the pictures. Here are some I liked a lot.
PERU — A boy on the road to Cuzco, near Pisac, in the Valle Sagrado of the Urubamba River, May 1954.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof
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- Blue RiverSAO PAULO, Brazil — 1960.
PHOTO: Rene Burri
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- Blue RiverLE CAP, South Africa — 1984.
PHOTO: Ian Berry[Image]
- Blue RiverVIETNAM — The 10-year-old South Vietnamese soldier in this 1968 photo was known as "little tiger" for allegedly having killed his mother and teacher, two Viet Cong members.
PHOTO: Philip Jones Griffiths [Image]
- Blue RiverTEHRAN, Iran — Veiled women training in shooting on the outskirts of the city, 1986.
PHOTO: Jean Gaumy[Image]
- Blue RiverITALY — The Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1990.
PHOTO: Martin Parr [Image]
- Blue RiverBURMA — The Shwe Pyi Daw Rock, a Buddhist holy site, is located 10 miles north of Kyakito and 150 miles from the capital, Rangoon.
PHOTO: Hiroji Kubota [Image]
- Blue RiverNEW YORK CITY — A llama in Times Square in 1957.
PHOTO: Inge Morath
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- Blue RiverWUHAN, China — A statue of Mao Tse-tung in the large industrial center of Wuhan, Hubei province, on the Yangtze, 1971.
PHOTO: Marc Riboud[Image]
- Blue RiverTOKYO — Courtyard of the Meiji Temple blanketed in snow, 1951.
PHOTO: Werner Bischof[Image]
- SusanThanks Blue River! Love this one, seems it is right out of poetry.
- SusanSome fashion photographies...
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- 鍏崄涓�瀛�On June 8, 1972 a South Vietnamese aircraft accidentally dropped its napalm payload on the village of Trang Bang. With her clothes on fire, 9 year old Phan Thi Kim Phuc ran out of the village with her family to be airlifted to hospital.
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- 鍏崄涓�瀛�July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon - astronaut Buzz Aldrin planting an American flag.
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I also think the Meiji Temple is one of the very best by Bischof. Too bad he died so young (at age 38).